The Content of a Cucumber

[Don Schaeffer]

When I look at the cucumber I wonder what all the fuss is about biologically. The fruit is essentially a collection of water bags. The biological usefulness of the plant is very subtle, essentially hidden. The reproduction part of the fruit is hard to see--but it is the nearly transparent seed-making mechanism. The fruit is essentially connected bags of water. But the microscope reveals some structures which are hard to figure out. That's what makes the cucumber interesting.

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